Audio Burst Collision Resolution
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Abstract
In an conferencing system in which a plurality of communication devices electronically connect respective participants to one another, a method for mitigating the effects of substantially concurrent audio bursts from two or more of the participants includes identifying a priority attribute associated with each of multiple substantially concurrent audio bursts, comparing the identified priority attributes, and electronically suppressing at least one audio burst as a function of the comparison.
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46 Claims
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25. A method for mitigating the effects of substantially concurrent audio bursts from two or more of the participants, for use in an conferencing system in which a plurality of communication devices electronically connect respective participants to one another, the method comprising:
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identifying a priority attribute associated with each of multiple substantially concurrent audio bursts; comparing the identified priority attributes; and electronically suppressing at least one audio burst as a function of the comparison, wherein said suppressing comprises performing one or more of attenuating, altering pitch, sound replacement, selective frequency manipulation, and selective spatial positioning. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 45, 46)
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34. A conferencing system operable to mitigate the effects of two or more substantially concurrent audio bursts, comprising:
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a concurrency detector operable to determine substantial concurrency of two or more audio bursts; an attribute extractor operable to extract priority attributes from substantially concurrent audio bursts; a comparator operable to compare extracted priority attributes; and a suppressor operable to suppress at least one audio burst as a function of the comparison, wherein the suppressor is operable to perform on said at least one audio burst one or more of attenuating, altering pitch, sound replacement, selective frequency manipulation, and selective spatial positioning. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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